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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

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Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 128

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    in the car did not answer him. He said "good-night" again and he got no answer
    He went over to the car and felt the man and knew he was dead.
    When he saw he was dead he knew that he had been taken up out of the graveyard. He took the clothes and the boots off the corpse and put them on himself and put the corpse behind the ditch. He got into the car himself and when the men came back from putting the coffin in the ground they got into the car. They drove home and while they were going along the road on man
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Keadeen, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Joe Byrne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 49
    Address
    Keadeen, Co. Wicklow